Frank A. Seiberling founded Goodyear in 1898 by in East Akron, Ohio. They first made horseshoe pads, bicycle and carriage tyres, fire hoses and even rubber poker chips. Goodyear produces the first off-the-road tyre: the Rut-Proof Tyre in 1921 and today produces tyres for cars, trucks, SUVs, 4X4s, and buses.